Leah McLaren

Leah McLaren (born November 7, 1975) is a Canadian author and newspaper columnist.

Her writing has been published in several newspapers including The Times, The Evening Standard, and The Sunday Telegraph, as well as in the weekly magazine The Spectator, for which she wrote a controversial and widely read cover story on the romantic failure of the modern English male.

In 2008, the CBC shot Abroad, a television movie of the week, written and produced by McLaren and based on her experiences as a young Canadian newspaper reporter living and dating in London. It aired once, on March 14, 2010 and was being developed as a series; until CBC Television cancelled it before any other episodes were made.

McLaren describes herself as a feminist. She had a regular Saturday column in the Life section of The Globe and Mail, in which she talked about living as a single woman in modern-day Toronto. She has written a column in the Arts section. She also writes "The Leah Files", a monthly column in Flare, a fashion magazine. She has written for other publications including Toronto Life, McGill Daily, enRoute, and others.

Leah McLaren is currently Maclean's Magazine's London correspondent.

External links

• McLaren's columns from The Globe and Mail
• Leah McLaren at the Internet Movie Database